[ad_1] Simon & Schuster From NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier. Copyright © 2020 by Sarah Frier. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. The founders took over a whiteboard in one of the Dogpatch Labs conference rooms and had a brainstorming session that would serve as […]
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Hitting the Books: Disney’s influence on America’s first stealth planes
[ad_1] Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraftby Peter Westwick If you has any interest in aircraft in the 1950s, Southern California was the place to be. Blessed (at the time at least) with ample open space for airfields and manufacturing plants, a cadre of advanced research institutes and elite universities like CalTech, as […]
Hitting the Books: How an attempt at digital allyship fell flat
[ad_1] #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justiceby Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, Brooke Foucault Welles For people living in the margins of American society, Twitter’s ability to connect and amplify their voices offers unprecedented social and political opportunity. Hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter, #GirlsLikeUs, and #ICantBreathe have become rallying cries whose online impacts have resulted in […]
Hitting the Books: These brain cells could hold clues to the CTBI crisis
[ad_1] The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicineby Donna Jackson Nakazawa Whether you’ve just gotten your bell rung, your clock cleaned, or are simply seeing stars — congratulations, you’re likely concussed. When that happens, microglial cells, the human brain’s first line of immune defense, will set about […]
Hitting the Books: A brief history of industrial espionage and corn
[ad_1] The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, The FBI, and Industrial Espionageby Mara Hvistendahl Despite ongoing concerns regarding their long-term safety and environmental impacts, genetically modified foods are massive money makers for the the companies that develop and market them. They’re worth even more to the companies willing to lie, cheat, […]
Hitting the Books: The Y2K bug could come back sooner than you think
[ad_1] Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real Worldby Matt Parker The start of the 21st century was a time of excitement and trepidation for the world. One one hand, we sat on the cusp of a future, an entirely new millenium, filled with countless possibilities. On the other hand, there was a […]
Hitting the Books: Hackers can convince your IoT devices to betray you
[ad_1] Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terroristsby Audrey Kurth Cronin The internet is all around us — in our phones, our homes, our cars, and even our toaster ovens for some reason. Problem is, the adoption of this ubiquitous connectivity has far outpaced our efforts to secure those systems […]
Hitting the Books: How to get a date online
[ad_1] Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Loveby Victoria Turk Boomers rightly take a lot of flack for their inability to fully grasp the intricacies of modern social media but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are necessarily that much more savvy than our parents. […]
Hitting the Books: How America’s Space Race sought to renew our ‘New South’
[ad_1] NASA and the Long Civil Rights MovementEdited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring At its inception, NASA, and space exploration in general, was billed as an endeavor “for the benefit of all mankind.” However, the reality of the situation was far more messy. Eisenhower complained of the cost while leaders of the […]
To all the books we hit this year
[ad_1] Of course, if you haven’t been able to read along throughout the year, you should be sure to check out Black Software by Charlton D. McIlwain, Six Concepts for the End of the World by Steve Beard, The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean, Talking to Robots: Tales From Our Human-Robot Futures by David Ewing […]